NPS Haiku #4

[citizenwind]

You're a black poet
named Manifest Destiny.
READ SOME FUCKING BOOKS.

Comments

[mojgani]

under manifest destiny in wikipedia:

National policy was that Indians had to become civilized and abandon hunting and become farmers. Advocates of civilization programs believed that the process would greatly reduce the amount of land needed by the Indians, thereby making more land available for purchase by white Americans.

[citizenwind]

how about, from the same entry:

"The term combined a belief in expansionism with other popular ideas of the era, including American exceptionalism, Romantic nationalism, and a belief in the natural superiority of what was then called the "Anglo-Saxon race," i.e., whites of English heritage."

[mojgani]

and of course, as it says, the term can be used to mean really whatever one wants it to mean, but still. that's kind of a copout.

[citizenwind]

but still very awkward for a person of color to proudly call themselves, I'd say.

[mojgani]

word.

[citizenwind]

hey can you backchannel me your phone number? i'm actually surprised we haven't exchanged that info the eighteen-hundred times we crossed paths this year.

[citizenwind]

you're a pervert.